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Saudi Crown delivers on promise in Pennsylvania Derby By Tim Wilkin The Bensalem skies were gray, and the cold winds blew late Saturday afternoon at Parx Racing. An all-day rain had given way to a misty air over the track, threatening to put a pall over the biggest day of racing...

Bolshoi Ballet dances to G1 Resorts World Casino Sword Dancer victory NYRA PRESS OFFICE —- Bolshoi Ballet; Chelsea Durand Photo Bolshoi Ballet, who won his North American debut in the Grade 1 Belmont Derby more than two years ago, put away favored fellow Irish-bred Stone...

By Tom Luicci —- PLETCHER-TRAINED NOTED ROLLS LATE FOR ONE-LENGTH VICTORY IN SATURDAY’S $206,000 SAPLING STAKES AT MONMOUTH PARK OCEANPORT, N.J. – If there was a disadvantage to Noted having yet to try the dirt prior to Saturday’s $206,000 Sapling Stakes at Monmouth Park,...

By Mary Eddy —- NYRA PHOTO As is often the case in the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers, the prestigious 10-furlong route at Saratoga Race Course once again provided clarity on who sits atop the 3-year-old rankings when Grade 1 Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets-winner...

One in Vermillion wins G1 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial By NYRA Press Office SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Jonathan Kalman’s One in Vermillion crossed the wire first to post a 1 3/4-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial at Saratoga Race Course. The...

By Mary Eddy Joel Labozzetta Photo SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown had four chances to capture Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Lake Placid, and did just that as Ran Jan Racing’s Kentucky homebred Aspray rallied strongly from off the pace...

By Ryan Martin —- Susie Raisher Photo SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Klaravich Stables’ Randomized took command from the onset and never looked back en route to a triumphant score in Saturday’s 143rd running of the 10-furlong Grade 1, $600,000 Alabama presented by Keeneland Sales...

By Tom Luicci —- FAVORED NO NAY METS CRUISES TO 5½-LENGTH VICTORY IN SUNDAY’S TYRO STAKES AT MONMOUTH PARK OCEANPORT, N.J. – No Nay Mets further stamped himself as a 2-year-old turf sprinter with Breeders’ Cup potential, returning from a disappointing showing at Ascot by...

By Tom Luicci —- OCCULT ROMPS IN SATURDAY’S GRADE 3 MONMOUTH OAKS AS JOCKEY LYNCH WINS BOTH STAKES ON MONMOUTH’S CARD OCEANPORT, N.J. – If any other New York-based trainers call Feargal Lynch about riding in a stakes race at Monmouth Park in the near future there probably...

NYRA PHOTO By Keith McCalmont SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Juddmonte’s Elite Power took another step toward defending his title as Champion Male Sprinter with a dramatic head score over Gunite in Saturday’s Grade 1, $350,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap, a six-furlong sprint for...